Brighter Wounds

Brighter Wounds is the fifth studio album by Son Lux. It was released through City Slang on February 9, 2018. Music videos were created for "Slowly", "All Directions", and "The Fool You Need".

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 based on 11 reviews. This indicated that it garnered "generally favorable reviews".

Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.

Son Lux
 * Ryan Lott – performance, production, arrangement
 * Rafiq Bhatia – performance, production, arrangement
 * Ian Chang – performance, production, arrangement

Additional musicians
 * Starr Busby – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Kate Davis – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Casey Dienel – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Nina Moffitt – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Kristin Slipp – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Vuyo Sotashe – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * DM Stith – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Vanessa Upson – vocals (1–4, 6, 10)
 * Hideaki Aomori – clarinet (1, 2, 4, 10), flute (2), saxophone (2, 4)
 * Hajnal Pivnick – violin (1, 10)
 * Rob Moose – violin (1, 3, 6, 10), viola (1, 3, 6, 10)
 * C.J. Camerieri – trumpet (2, 10), horn (9)
 * Jackson Hill – bass guitar (3–5)
 * Arrington de Dionyso – clarinet (3), flute (3)
 * Indianapolis Children's Choir – vocals (4, 6, 10)
 * Dave Douglas – trumpet (4)
 * Trina Basu – violin (4)
 * Arun Ramamurthy – violin (4)
 * Anjna Swaminathan – violin (4)
 * Nadia Sirota – viola (7)
 * Alex Sopp – flute (10)

Technical personnel
 * Ryan Lott – string arrangement (3, 6, 10), horn arrangement (9), mixing (4, 6, 7, 9)
 * Rob Moose – string arrangement (1, 3, 6, 10)
 * C.J. Camerieri – horn arrangement (9)
 * Chris Tabron – mixing (1–3, 5, 8, 10)
 * Dave Kutch – mastering (all tracks)